Earl Kan Gong's Manor.
"Did you hear? A dangerous monster has appeared in the Miral Labyrinth. Several adventurer parties barely made it out alive. I also heard that the monster looks exactly like a human."
"Yeah, I heard about that too. That monster even uses a sword to slash people, and it eats other monsters. It's so terrifying... I hope the Lord has a way to deal with this monster."
"Ah, Your Highness the Princess."
The servants' conversation was overheard by Princess Elena as she passed by. Speaking of the Miral Labyrinth, that seemed to be the place where Torres was undergoing his special training.
Torres hadn't returned for a month, and she didn't know how his special training was going.
Recently, the Earl was discussing the attack on the royal capital with lords from other territories. Since Elena didn't have much to do normally, she could only stay quietly in the manor.
As usual, Elena walked towards the garden pavilion of the manor to pass the time for the day.
However, at this moment, her beautiful emerald eyes seemed to have spotted something. Upon seeing the approaching person, she immediately said,
"Good morning, Lord Xi Xi."
"Oh, morning, Elena." Ye Chuan happened to be passing by with Elara. Seeing Elena, he raised his hand to greet her.
"Good morning, Your Highness," Elara bowed obediently.
Elena gave a faint smile. However, seeming to remember Torres, she asked Ye Chuan, "By the way, Lord Xi Xi, may I ask you something?"
"Oh, go ahead," Ye Chuan grunted in acknowledgment.
"How is Torres progressing? I heard a very unusual monster has appeared over in Miral. Is he going to be alright?"
Hearing this, Ye Chuan paused for a few seconds before looking up.
"Who is Torres?"
Elena blinked. "Eh..."
"Hmm?"
"Eh?!!" Elena immediately exclaimed, "L-Lord Xi Xi, are you joking? Torres. My guard, Torres. The son of the Reinhardt family's head knight, Torres."
"Just kidding." Ye Chuan waved his hand. "Of course I remember. That big, goofy holy knight."
"Phew..." Elena breathed a sigh of relief.
She had thought Ye Chuan had actually forgotten about Torres.
Ye Chuan's next words made her freeze again. "Oh right, what has he been up to lately? I haven't seen the guy."
Elena: "..."
"Um, didn't Torres go on a special training with you? In the Miral Labyrinth."
Ye Chuan asked, "Oh? It's been over a month, shouldn't he have been back ages ago? It was only supposed to take three to five days. He has to eat, right?"
Elena: "Eh?"
"Hmm?"
"Eh?!"
"Oh?"
"Ehhh—" Elena said, "Torres hasn't come back for over a month!"
Ye Chuan: "..."
Is that so?
Hmm?
Well, how about that.
"Torres isn't in any danger, is he?!" Elena asked.
"His level isn't low, so what could possibly happen to him?" Ye Chuan said. "Besides, the location of his training was on the first and second floors. The monsters there are much lower level than he is."
"I see." Elena thought about it and seemed somewhat reassured.
"It doesn't matter. Worst case scenario, he dies and perfectly embodies the path of chivalry," Ye Chuan said.
Elena tugged at Ye Chuan's clothes and said, "Lord Xi Xi, please stop joking around. This isn't funny!"
"That's right, Teacher. Sir Torres will be fine, right?" Elara also asked.
"Alright, I'll just go over and take a look. There's no need to be so tense," Ye Chuan said.
Elena took a step back and nodded gently.
"Thank you for your trouble, Lord Xi Xi."
"Okay, perfect timing." Ye Chuan looked at the blue-haired girl beside him. "Elara, it's a good opportunity for you to go to the Miral Labyrinth as well and find some monsters to train with."
"T-Training is fine, but Teacher, you wouldn't just abandon me down there for a month too, would you?"
"Of course not."
"That's good."
Ye Chuan simply picked Elara up by the collar, then with a light tap of his foot, he soared straight into the air. "Liftoff~"
"Eh, eh?! Teacher, wait a minute, I'm scared—"
Seeing the disappearing silhouettes of Ye Chuan and Elara, Princess Elena couldn't help but start praying.
...
...
Miral Labyrinth. Ye Chuan had returned here with Elara.
"T-Teacher, I'm dizzy, woo~"
"It's normal to feel dizzy. You'll get used to it after a few more times." Ye Chuan put Elara down. He glanced into the interior of the labyrinth, then directly released his divine sense to envelop it.
However, the labyrinth seemed to have some kind of restriction. Ye Chuan's divine sense only swept through the first three floors. He did find Torres's aura, but he didn't find any trace of Torres himself.
"Let's go, we're heading in."
"O-Oh, okay." Elara was still very confident in Ye Chuan's strength, having witnessed just how powerful his magic truly was.
But after coming inside, Elara no longer thought that way.
Throughout the interior passages of the labyrinth, there were blackened, foul-smelling bloodstains and monster corpses everywhere. The level of brutality far exceeded Elara's imagination.
"S-So intense..."
"Let's go. There are no more monsters on the first floor." Ye Chuan continued walking deeper inside.
"Teacher, wait for me."
Moving on to the second floor, the stench of blood here was even heavier. A sheltered young lady like Elara, who had grown up in a manor, couldn't stand the smell at all.
"Teacher..."
"If you can't bear it, try using magic to alleviate your condition," Ye Chuan said.
"Yes..."
Elara's water magic included a purification spell, so she raised her staff and began to chant, "High-Speed Incantation, Gutana, Water Purification!"
A ring of water gathered around Elara's body. Accompanied by a rainbow glow, Elara instantly felt much better.
"Teacher, I'm good now!"
"Hmm, not bad." Ye Chuan nodded slightly upon seeing Elara start off with High-Speed Incantation.
This was a task required by Ye Chuan. No matter what magic Elara cast, she had to cast High-Speed Incantation first. Even though this consumed a lot of mana and mental energy, Ye Chuan felt it was extremely beneficial for her.
Casting your skills faster than others gives you many preemptive advantages.
Although he was getting paid to teach magic, Ye Chuan didn't want his student to be completely useless.
Because he needed to find Torres's location, Ye Chuan didn't waste time with Elara and kept heading downward.
By the time they reached the fourth floor, the monsters here were sufficiently dangerous, at the very least, they were not something Elara could handle. However, as for Ye Chuan...
Those monsters would explode with just a single glance from him.
"Oh? Found him." After arriving on the fourth floor, Ye Chuan's divine sense finally swept over Torres's aura.
After leading Elara in the direction of his divine sense, the two of them soon saw Torres.
He was wearing tattered armor, standing in place with lifeless eyes. The surrounding area was filled with minced meat and skeletal remains, emitting a terrifying aura.
"Sir Torres!" Elara called out, but then she realized something was wrong.
"Wait... this is..."
"Yeah, he's already dead." Ye Chuan had also noticed this.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
g Yu was preparing for retirement when her organization decided to eliminate her. She transmigrated to a zombie apocalypse world. However, a tiny unexpected situation occurred: She somehow transformed into an adorable little girl?!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
